Cape Town - The truth commission hearings into South Africa's chemical and biological warfare programme swung between horror and farce yesterday with the disclosure of plans to develop race-sensitive toxins and schemes to blow rioters into a state of peacefulness with grenades packed with LSD and cannabis, David Beresford reports.
Dr Daan Goosen, former managing director of a front company for the military, described attempts to take up an offer of technology to create bacteria which would attack only blacks. He justified the project by comparing it to the nuclear arm race, saying the intention was to secure peace through fear.